Alabama police using facial recognition to ID Capitol riot suspects
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for help to identify individuals who made unlawful entry into the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. FBI
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Law enforcement agencies across the country are using artificial intelligence facial recognition software to identify members of the violent mob that broke into the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, including at least one in Alabama.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on Friday that Oxford Police Sgt. Jason Webb was using the Clearview AI facial recognition application to help identify people who participated in the violent protests Wednesday. Webb told the Journal on Friday that he had “generated several suspect leads” using the program.
Senate Chaplain Barry Black Closes Historic Joint Session of Congress with Prayer
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January 7, 2021
Seventh-day Adventist Senate Chaplain Barry Black offered the closing prayer on the joint session of Congress in the early hours of Thursday, January 7, 2021. The session, which convened on Wednesday to certify President-elect Biden’s victory, was forced to delay by several hours after violent pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol Building.
“Lord of our lives and Sovereign of our beloved nation. We deplore the desecration of the United States Capitol Building, the shedding of innocent blood, the loss of life, and the quagmire of disfunction that threaten our democracy. These tragedies have reminded us that words matter and that the power of life and death is in the tongue,” began Black.
January 7, 2021
Insurgents climb the walls to the Capitol terrace during an alt-right riot on Jan. 6. Photo courtesy of The New York Times.
BRIDGET EARLY | MANAGING EDITOR | bfearly@butler.edu
After erecting a full-sized gallows in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool, hundreds of camouflage-bedecked insurrectionists forced their way into the United States Capitol Building on Jan. 6 in an unequivocal act of domestic terrorism. The building was besieged for over five hours by white supremacists acting with the encouragement of President Donald Trump, whose speech at an alt-right rally earlier that day fomented the attack on the nation’s seat of legislative power.